They completed their trek, had an amazing time and now they are back. After the Amtrak train derailment, and having to find another way home; they got back on July 2nd by bus.

Photos and a trip report to come.

Our crew completed their trek and had an amazing adventure!

As many of you are aware, there was a terrible Amtrak train derailment in Missouri. Unfortunately, that was their train to take home and those trains have been cancelled. They spend the better part of a day in camp working on possible ways to get home. They looked at several members driving down and back, trying to rent vehicles (all gone), renting an RV (gone) flights (wow are they expensive) or a bus home. The bus became the most reasonable option. The 16 hour trip home now becomes a 24 hour trip with 3 bus changes and layovers.

Photos to be posted later.

The crew is off and slightly over half way through. They had a fun train ride to Raton and a short bus ride to Philmont. One of our Eagle Scouts was their ranger.

Photos coming back show them having a good trek. A little rain here and there, to be expected.

Looking forward to seeing photos and hearing about their trip.

I am excited to finally be able to be part of the Woodbadge Team for 2023. Woodbadge was an amazing adventure when I took that course. I have wanted to be part of the training team ever since, but the dates just have not worked out. I was asked to be part of the training team for 2023 and it works in my schedule. SO excited to FINALLY be able to do this. One more thing marked off my bucket list.

I am excited to be part of the 2023 National Jamboree. I have been fortunate enough to be part of an AMAZING group of individuals that make up Base Camp Charlie. This will be the 3rd National Jamboree and 1 World Jamboree that I have worked with this group. As they say, its a “family reunion”.

An absolutely amazing group of people that I feel blessed to work with.

What a great group of people to work with. We had 17 people go through Baloo training and 15 go through IOLS training. A great group of people, and so happy to be part of the teaching group.

We are under 6 weeks until out Philmont trek. I continue to read about the fires in that area, and that causes a LOT of concern. We lost out 2018 trek due to fire, our 2020 trek due to Co-Vid. Now there are fires in the southern part of Philmont and our trek is in the South. We are watching closely and hoping for the best.